Sir, – Angela Merkel's pledge to German voters that, at the end of this coalition government's four-year term they'll be "better off than today" (Derek Scally, World News, December 18th) is as vacuous a statement as anything our lot might utter considering the person at the helm for the past eight years and therefore the person responsible for the state in which German citizens find themselves today, was none other than Dr Merkel! – Yours, etc,
JD MANGAN,
Stillorgan Road,
Stillorgan, Co Dublin.